People are able to perceive their surroundings in three dimensions and can quickly spot potential danger in everyday situations. Drones have to learn this. Prof. Stefan Leutenegger refers to the intelligence needed for this task as ‘spatial artificial intelligence’, or spatial AI. This new approach will be used by cartographers mapping forests, in ship inspections and when building walls.
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is among the best universities in the world for preparing students for the digital economy. In the latest edition of the Digital Leaders in Higher Education rankings, it placed 11th overall. In the management studies category, TUM holds the number one position worldwide. It ranks third for entrepreneurship programs and fourth in computer science.
Flying is the most damaging mode of transportation for our climate. At least, up until now. But work is already underway to investigate technical alternatives to conventional aircraft. For example, airships with highly efficient solar cells and extremely light batteries on board. Prof. Dr. Christoph Pflaum from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), together with Prof. Dr. Agnes Jocher from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the FAU student Tim Riffelmacher, has investigated which route a solar airship would have to take in order to fly from London to New York as quickly and as climate-friendly as possible.
The TUM Think Tank is setting up a task force to provide orientation and guidance on handling generative artificial intelligence to the policy, administration, community and business sectors. The group, representing various disciplines at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), will formulate regulatory proposals and will facilitate exchange on practical questions.
At first glance music and computer science might have little to do with one another, but Prof. Dr. Meinard Müller thinks differently: he aims to use artificial intelligence to analyze complex characteristics and hidden relations in music.
Prof. Dr. Agnes Koschmider from the University of Bayreuth is the spokeswoman of the new DFG research unit FOR 5495 "SOURCED – Process Mining on Distributed Event Sources". Process mining is a proven technique developed for the discovery, analysis and evaluation of business processes. As of today, the application of process mining struggles to process data from distributed sensor-based systems in the context of the Internet of Things. The goal of the new research unit SOURCED is therefore to provide the methodological foundations of novel process mining techniques for data from the Internet of Things.
As part of the EmmA project, the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Augsburg has developed a coaching assistant avatar designed to provide psychological support in times of occupational stress. It can recognise a user’s emotional moods via their mobile device and react appropriately in real time. The avatar is based on machine learning and complex data processing. The results of the project will be used in a follow-up study with people suffering from depression and is also part of an international collaborative project aimed at providing vulnerable people with access to personalised psychosocial services.
Ceramic matrix composites are characterized by their ability to withstand very high operating temperatures and shock-like temperature changes and also by the fact that they are not susceptible to wear. Automating a fiber spraying process for the production of oxide ceramic matrix composites and at the same time making it highly flexible is the goal of a new project involving computer science and engineering at the University of Bayreuth. Intuitive robot programming is intended to enable companies to manufacture short-fiber-reinforced oxide ceramic components on demand, even in very small batches. The "FlexFiber" project is being funded by the DFG with a total of around 700,000 euros.
Artificial intelligence should soon make it possible to detect forest fire hazards earlier than before and to fight forest fires more effectively. This is the goal of the joint project "AI-based Forest Monitoring - Artificial Intelligence for Early Detection of Forest Fire Events (KIWA)", in which the University of Bayreuth is participating with its research competencies in biogeography and disturbance ecology. The German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) is funding the project for the next two years with a total of around 1.8 million euros
The Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) invites international researchers to the 2nd COORDINATE Summer School. From July 10th to 14th a total of 30 participants from EU member states and non-EU countries will have the opportunity to take part in the extensive framework program of the Summer School in the world heritage city of Bamberg. They will learn about the most important panel data surveys on educational and employment trajectories such as the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), develop and advance their own research questions, and network with fellow scientists who have similar research interests. Applications will be accepted until April 16th.
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